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AOL Instant Messenger virus [RESOLVED]

sportsman7890

Posted 31 October 2005 - 08:28 PM

sportsman7890

Member

Member

23 posts

this is a virus infecting my instant messenger. this afternoon, i clicked on a link by mistake, and now it has taken over my AIM. it is sending out links to other viruses to all of the people on my buddy list. it could be W32/[email protected], but i am not sure. it could be anything, because neither AVG virus program or ewido detected it and removed it. i have also scanned with spybot and ad aware. here is a copy of my hijack this log:

sportsman7890

Posted 31 October 2005 - 09:04 PM

don77

Posted 31 October 2005 - 09:16 PM

don77

Malware Expert

Retired Staff

18,526 posts

Hi sportsman7890,
Sorry for the confusion, We had some nit wit running around giving out bad advise and posting very dangerous links, Seems we have him under controll now,
Thanks to the quick work of our Admin staff,
Give me a couple minutes to review your log and I will post back shortly

don77

Posted 31 October 2005 - 09:21 PM

Create a folder on the C: drive called C:\HJT. You can do this by going to My Computer (Windows key+e) then double click on C: then right click and select New then Folder and name it hjtMove HJT into this new folder please,This is important so please do this prior to anything else please